Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Bestselling editor Rebecca Rowland (Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction) and Dark Ink Books (Savini, Unmasked: The True Life Story of the World’s Most Prolific Cinematic Killer) present a unique anthology of monster, folk, paranormal, and psychological horror as glimpsed through the lens of the latchkey generation. In this assortment of spine-chilling tales, twenty-two voices shine a strobe light on the cultural demons that lurked in the background while they came of age in the heyday of Satanic panic and slasher flicks, milk carton missing and music television, video rentals and riot grrrls. These Gen-X storytellers once stayed out unsupervised until the streetlights came on, and what they brought home with them will terrify you. Available to pre-order in eBook and audiobook formats, with physical editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Beulah is the story of Georgie, an eighteen-year-old with a talent (or affliction) for seeing ghosts. Georgie and her family have had a hard time since her father died, but she and her mother Gina and sisters Tommy and Stevie are making a new start in the small town of Beulah, Idaho where Gina’s wealthy friend Ellen has set them up to help renovate an old stone schoolhouse. Georgie experiences a variety of disturbances—the town is familiar from dreams and she seems to be experiencing her mother’s memory of the place, not to mention the creepy ghost in the schoolhouse basement—but she is able to maintain, in her own laconic way, until she notices that her little sister Stevie also has the gift. Stevie is in danger from a malevolent ghost, and Georgie tries to help, but soon Georgie is the one in danger. Available to pre-order in eBook, with a paperback to follow, you can guarantee your copy on 25 January, here.
1966. Jimmy Knotts books passage on the riverboat El Zorro to journey down the Amazon in search of an escaped Nazi known as The Winemaker. But his escorts along the treacherous river have a mission of their own — one involving the capture of a rare amphibious creature. With his list of allies quickly depleting, can Jimmy survive the deadliest place on Earth long enough to find the war criminal? Set in the world of Espionage Horror, Primal Reserve is the pulpy, blood-soaked follow-up to Beasts of the Caliber Lodge. Available to pre-order now in eBook, with a paperback edition to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Eternal life comes with its own set of problems. Walking corpses wasn’t one of them. Dorian awakens and discovers the world turned a little bit more…uncivilized. For a vampire, the old way of things were just that – the old way. And they worked. Hunting for sustenance wasn’t so literal of a term until now. Dorian’s plight for a simple meal is now a three-way bloodbath between himself, the undead, and a band of zealous humans eager to cut him down. Years of hunting has made Dorian into the ultimate hunter; a realization humans are about to experience…again. Run from the dead. Run from him. It won’t make a difference. Everyone’s dead anyway. Coming 7 February, you can guarantee your copy now, here.
GABRIEL RICARD returns to fiction with a collection of 6 horror stories, including a young man’s surreal encounter with vampires, a desperate last date in a shimmering shopping mall, and the long-drawn consequences of a demon invasion. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can grab yours here.
KEV HARRISON